DVD

The great tours : a guided tour of ancient Egypt

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ISBN: 1644651017
ISBN: 9781644651018
ISBN: 9781644651018 :
Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (696 min.) : sound, color, 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm)
videodisc
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2021]
Copyright: ©2021

General Note:	Course no. 80020.
Formatted Contents Note:	disc 1. Exploring the gift of the Nile ; The major museums of Cairo ; How to build a pyramid ; The Great Pyramid: the last ancient wonder ; The Great Sphinx and the Giza Plateau ; The Step Pyramid: Djoser's stairway to heaven -- disc 2. The capital at Memphis and the Saqqara tombs ; Old, new and late Saqqara ; Saqqara's famous fifth-dynasty tombs ; King Sneferu and the first true pyramid ; Power and revolution: Beni Hasan and Amarna ; Akhenaten's city at Anarna and Hermopolis -- disc 3. Abydos: the religious center of Osiris ; The Temple of Hathor at Dendera ; The Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak ; Luxor Temple and the Opet festival ; Royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings ; Valley of the Queens and workman's village -- disc 4. The Colossi of Memnon and Hatshepsut's Temple ; Theban Tombs: the Necropolis of Nobles ; Ptolemaic Temples of Edfu and Kom Ombo ; The ancient Egyptian frontier: Aswan ; The temples at Philae and Abu Simbel ; Alexandria and the lost city of Tanis.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lecturer: Melinda Hartwig, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University.
System Details Note:	DVD.
Language Note:	Closed captioned.